14 June 2022
Airline travellers have suffered several months of cancellations and long delays at airports, which look set to continue. This is a crisis of the industry's making.
9 June 2022
The tube in London was shut down on 6 June by ongoing disputes with tube workers. Station and revenue control staff were on strike against job cuts and attacks on their pensions.
25 May 2022
RMT members have voted overwhelmingly for strike action on pay, jobs and safety.
2 May 2022
Lecturers at Richmond upon Thames College are balloting over strike action over the employer’s plan to fire them all and offer re-engagment on worse terms.
The RMT and Nautilus International, the trade unions representing workers sacked by P&O Ferries, continue to fight the sackings.
Civil servants have strongly criticised the government, their employer, for setting a low cap on pay rises.
The ongoing pay dispute at City regulator the Financial Conduct Authority has entered a new stage, with action set to start in May.
21 April 2022
Trade unions representing workers sacked by P&O Ferries continue their fight the sackings with a series of rallies at ports around the country and outside the offices of P&O’s Dubai-owned parent company.
The ruling class never misses a chance to undermine workers. Under the cloak of helping refugees, they can’t resist the opportunity for hiring cheap labour.
30 March 2022
Sacked seafarers are taking the fight to P&O Ferries with demonstrations around the country in response to the employer’s brazen actions.
28 March 2022
Barristers began industrial action on 11 April over criminal legal aid fees after the government has delayed implementing the recommendations of an independent review.
19 March 2022
P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew from its ferries on Wednesday 17 March. The response from workers was immediate and clear. Demonstrations are happening around British ports. Unions are taking the fight to the company.
5 March 2022
With staff facing the prospect of job cuts along with a degraded pension provision as part of a wider attack on working conditions, over 10,000 RMT London Underground members in all grades took strike action on 1 and 3 March.
28 February 2022
Universities have rejected out of hand union proposals to secure the future of their pension scheme. This has angered the union and raises the stakes in the ongoing wider dispute about university pay and conditions.
Staff at a total of 68 universities were on strike in February after university employers refused to withdraw cuts to pensions or accept compromise proposals from the UCU union.
22 February 2022
Unite trade Union members who work at the Financial Conduct Authority have voted heavily to take industrial action against proposed cuts to pay and conditions.
16 February 2022
Staff at 44 universities are on strike this week after university employers refused to withdraw cuts to the Universities Superannuation Scheme or accept the University and College Union's compromise proposals.
15 January 2022
More than 560 Stagecoach bus workers in South Yorkshire have won a 10.7 per cent pay increase from May after walking out on indefinite strike following the company’s refusal to improve its pay offer.
Investment in rail could make life better in Britain as well as help the country meet its carbon emission targets. But the government seems obsessed with taking on the rail unions and driving down pay and conditions for staff…
After three days of national strike action from 1-3 December members of UCU, the university workers union, have now moved to a “reclaim our time” campaign underpinned by a form of working to hours.
2 December 2021
Support is growing for the university staff action over pensions, pay and working conditions taking place at campuses across the country, with picket lines swelling.
1 November 2021
The government’s economic statement isn’t the final word on our economic future. Workers must take this on – in fighting for pay and more.
British seafarers are becoming ever rarer as low wages and immigration waivers bedevil the industry…
HGV drivers on refuse, recycling and commercial waste lorries for Brighton Cityclean have won a dispute over unilaterally imposed daily changes to rounds, and the removal of drivers from long-standing rounds.
The University and College Union has begun balloting its members in universities over action on pensions and pay.
17 October 2021
The RMT has announced that action on Stagecoach buses in the South West has been suspended while members consider a revised offer made in last-ditch talks.
8 October 2021
The RMT has released figures revealing a massive decline in the employment of British seafarers, compounded by poverty wages in the maritime sector.
How wildly distorted statistics helped an unholy alliance of EU-adherents and enthusiasts for globalism to turn a supply-chain glitch into a full-blown crisis.
7 October 2021
Essar has picked a dispute at Stanlow refinery during a petrol panic, trying to go back on a pay deal and worsen pensions – provoking a furious and united response from the refinery workers, members of the Unite union.
Further strikes have been taking place in the long-running dispute between ticket examiners and conductors in Scotland and their employer, Abellio Scotrail.
